F*ck the people who empower gig economy. Fuck Uber eats, door dash and everything similar.
People generally should use the best option. Often expense is the metric. These are able to operate at competitive rates because they get away with shenanigans. They should be regulated properly, then their rates would reflect that and people would use them less.
Already they are expensive AF. The menu prices on doordash can be like 50% more, then there are the service fees and more.
Yeah, it’s this. The only thing innovated by DD or UberEats is avoiding regulation. This is the real cause of all of the enshittification that everyone is seeing. It’s been the plan all along; charge an absolutely unsustainable price, jack things up when you’re the only option. DD is already well along this pattern; it used to be much cheaper, and it’s still going to go up.
I look forward to the downvotes again because everyone has their heads so far up their asses but we are the problem. Fuck us.
We are the reason we are racing to the bottom. We expect cheap & fast and we don’t care how it happens as long as it does.
I think about this a lot whenever Airbnb comes up. People mention it and I’m like airbnb caused rents to rise a lot, and I just get deafening silence.
Honestly I would respect “I know it has externalized costs I’m not paying for, but it’s convenient and I accept it’s not the best thing” more than awkward silence or clumsy justifications.
I’m guilty too, sometimes. I should probably order directly from the restaurant instead of using seamless or whatever
I look forward to the downvotes again because everyone has their heads so far up their asses but we are the problem. Fuck us.
We are the reason we are racing to the bottom. We expect cheap & fast and we don’t care how it happens as long as it does
Yep. Some More News had a sobering bit in their video on the generation war about how Millennials are also responsible for fucking up the world for the people coming after us like the Boomers were (as in, the real problem lies with politicians but we do make it worse in some ways). The gig economy was one example of fucking shit up for Gen Z without us realizing it at the time.
(Obviously the major problem here is that somehow DoorDash and Uber Eats get to pay people less, poorly written regulation that carves out concessions to make shit worse for everyone.)
Been a while since I watched it and I don’t know how well it holds up but it was interesting.
For every else (like me) who had never heard the term ‘gig economy’ before:
A gig economy is a free market system in which temporary positions are common and organizations hire independent workers for short-term commitments. The term “gig” is a slang word for a job that lasts a specified period of time. Traditionally, the term was used by musicians to define a performance engagement.
